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but no, the OC wouldn't allow it, it has to be at designated areas, with supervision of officials, pre and post event doping screening e.t.c. ... It'd be impossible to extend that to anywhere else, let alone to outer space
sigh
they'd clearly win at long jumps if they could agree if it was longer than it was higher LOL
At 7.2km/s they'd win anyway ((+:
00:26
Were any of the surface-bound rovers to Mars/Luna/Venus provided with a brake system?
00:44
@Everyone As in a wheel brake? I doubt it.
Yeh
Too obvious a question to answer?
You ask it, I'll answer it!
I can't imagine it doesn't get Googled.
OK q+: my commission?
lol
Hmm when did I close the SEx window?
01:14
in 2 hours and a half ;)
01:25
Wow ... That's it. I'm quitting SEx
bleat not even one star
goes back to bed
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01:52
@Everyone There you go :P
Live streams for the Soyuz TMA-11M launch from Baikonur Cosmodrome are now available on NASA Public in English and TsENKI in Russian.
More about the Soyuz TMA-11M on its Expedition 38 mission can be read on Spaceflight Now
02:16
Why can't Russians never set their output audio levels straight?
In Soviet Russia, output audio levels set you straight?
They're already in Soyuz ... who needs to go to the loo? :)
03:01
Cool view of the launchpad from the quarry now on TsENKI
03:46
Wakey! Wakey! The Soyuz launch event starts now, and live streams are available... loads of info there, cool videos now!! @JohnB @ManishEarth @ernestopheles @RhysW @RoryAlsop @Donald.McLean @DavidFreitag @DavidZ @Undo @Everyone @CrazyBuddy @PearsonArtPhoto
psh
zzzzz
c'mon
skies looks clear so we should get a good view
hey @Chad ;)
new gravatar?
ITs a platapus in a fedora
04:02
T-12 minutes
T-4 minutes
T-3:00
T-1:15
04:52
@Manish Here? I've got a mathy question.
05:07
@Undo What kind of math?
@Donald.McLean maths?
05:23
@Donald We have a question here where someone has a formula with an expression raised to the power of 0.5 - that's the same as square root, right?
@Undo Yes, exactly.
Awesome. Thanks, @Donald!
@Tildal We've asked nine questions in the past 24 hours - it feels like the pace has been picking up.
@Undo It has, but funny enough we had more visitors on tuesday than yesterday... must be due to rep train questions, but I didn't check if any were on the SuperCollider
Hmm, weird.
hmm that quote about 20 square yards for GOCE is indeed curious, but perhaps it's built in such a way to not disintegrate?
05:30
Pretty tough not to disintegrate after being blasted in a furnace that is built to keep out asteroids - and wouldn't you kind of want it to? I'd rather have a bunch of little pieces coming down than that thing - it's shaped like a missile.
Anyway, I'm out. Good diurnal isomorphism, people!
@Undo well it is aerodynamically shaped so that burn might be too localized and it might not burn up completely, dunno ... if it wasn't designed to fall apart into small pieces on reentry, then sure it's possible some of it will fall on someone's backyard LOL
05:52
This link works for you? dtic.mil/get-tr-doc/pdf?AD=ADA392479 (it's a direct DL PDF)
I would just like to confirm that the link works
 
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@Tilda What's that link? It seemed to start d/l without complaint
 
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09:47
posted on November 07, 2013

In this two-minute exposure, the Soyuz TMA-11M rocket heads from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan towards orbit with Expedition 38 Soyuz Commander Mikhail Tyurin of Roscosmos, Flight Engineer Rick Mastracchio of NASA and Flight Engineer Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency onboard.  The trio launched Thursday, Nov. 7, 2013 (Nov. 6 in the U.S.), bound for a docking at the Int

 
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13:34
@Everyone Ah cool, it's just some PDF document that I used the link to in one of the answers and OP said the link doesn't work. So it clearly does, thanks, that's all I wanted confirmed :)
14:14
posted on November 07, 2013 by Justin Vasel

A neutrino detector sits on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea whose goal it is to identify neutrinos from high-energy astrophysical sources.

14:42
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2484451/Super-high-tech-replacement-legendary-SR71-Blackbird.html

New technology engines (+: How close can these possibly take us to the Karman line?
@TildalWave Wakey wakey? You sent that when it was 22:46 for me. I was busy studying :[
Right. I'm off; got some reading to do
ciao
15:04
@DavidFreitag How would I know what sleeping habits you have while studying? :P
15:24
@TildalWave well uh.... good point.
15:38
@Tildal Mod hammer request, too broad: space.stackexchange.com/questions/2723/…
@Undo Comment first please, mod hammering isn't meant for such things. OP isn't a troll, we've seen him before around.
I was talking about closing, not deleting :)
vote to close!
I usually only mod hammer if it's blatant spam or vandalism
Aye, I did - but isn't the idea to get those kinds of questions closed quickly, so that they can be edited, then reopened?
Or am I completely confused?
I don't know, but I think your comment is exactly what's needed
15:44
Awesome. I'll let it rest there, see what happens.
there you go he edited yay
Yay!
who watched the launch last night?
was that last night?
@JohnB didn't you get your invitation (ping) ?
the launch was half an hour later
@TildalWave I did, it woke me up because my laptop was next to my bed and I didn't close chat
then I promptly rolled back over and went back to sleep :D
15:49
@Undo I know, but the procedure is to work with OP to improve on the question first, especially when they're likely to oblige
@JohnB Heh, you were studying too?
@TildalWave I had a huge print order that needed to go out yesterday, been working til 3/4 AM each morning for the past week
so last night was the first night in a while I actually got to sleep
but I appreciate the ping :)
Oh sure, ignore me any time you want, no problem :)
you make it very difficult to, but I try!
you make it sound like a challenge
what have I done D:
15:55
anyway the launch went smooth as butter, but I didn't yet check how the docking went
and it was a really clear day (cold I imagine) so it was nice to observe
OK Space Station Live is next on NASA TV
Oy @Manish!
there, they're repeating the launch video first
16:24
oy
16:39
my longest answer here just got longer LOL
ETHOS data is finally available
 
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A: Space.SE resolution: 1000+ questions by year end

UndoWe can do it. Edit: I'll be providing a sort of commentary here, keeping track of our progress: Between Nov 2 @ 14:56 and Nov 7 @ 18:27 (pretty close to five days), we asked 29 new questions, putting our rate since the time of this challenge at 5.9 questions/day. At this speed, we should have ...

18:55
@Undo heh that should give us enough time to shop for xmas presents :) it's going great last few days
I mean ... blah
@Tilda Answer the question q+:
@Everyone which one?
The new black-bird question up there ^^^^^
hmm dunno they're air-breathers no?
Never mind ... just occurred to me it's not relevant; that engine won't be able to breatehe
yep
heh. we must have been typing concurrently
are there any alternatives to a rocket engine to acquire orbital velocity, assuming the spacecraft is already at orbital altitudes?
19:09
sure
hmm?
Laser propulsion is a form of beam-powered propulsion where the energy source is a remote (usually ground-based) laser system and separate from the reaction mass. This form of propulsion differs from a conventional chemical rocket where both energy and reaction mass come from the solid or liquid propellants carried on board the vehicle. History The basic concepts underlying laser propulsion were first developed by Eugene Sanger and the Hungarian physicist Georgii Marx, with practical schemes being developed by Arthur Kantrowitz and Wolfgang Moekel in the 1970s. Laser propulsion systems ...
is it an existing question? if not i'll phrase it as one when i'm awake
practical?
how much would that laser dissipate on it's passage up through the atmosphere?
could be, but for orbits, the spacecraft would still need to carry some onboard mass that could be expanded by superheating it
maybe xenon gas dunno
why doesn't the gravity drive hurry up, and get invented anyway?
19:12
@Everyone powerful enough and it'd literally scorch the atmosphere in front of it
actually, I dunno why they don't refocus some of the captured beam in front of the spacecraft to displace the atmosphere and remove the drag
@TildalWave Ask it!
there you go (+:
Aks who?
/me glares @Undo
What did I do this time?
19:14
Off with his heads!
ducks
there's only a few such projects and I'm not sure it's not just the one from Brazil that's currently still ongoing
@Everyone it's okay - I'll invent it just after my time travel machine
roasts ducks
'o @Rory
I related news, I just maxed out my review limit on the SO close vote review queue - ugh.
Terrible place, the CV queue is.
19:15
what's a CV queue?
@RoryAlsop if your time travel machine worked, you could've invented it before
Curriculum Vitae
close votes.
blarg
The 90-thousand items one.
19:15
@TildalWave Well, I did that too
never mind ...
will have did that
you would have already done it?
I have one of Rory's Time Machines here
I will do that yesterday!
19:17
but it's from so long ago, it's utterly miniaturized and suffering from amnesia
magnesia?
:))
throttles @Tilda
lack of magnesium will cause that :P
Damn it. I had one awesome question to ask )+: run past the pod bay first I mean
did we already answer it?
19:19
Hm, just saw an item in the 10k mSO queue that I reviewed yesterday. Bug?
no ... you've gone and made me forget what it was
@Undo or a trap
@Everyone hahaha - I like Tildal's new feminine-gender name: Tilda
You know, I just realized that 10kers don't get audits.
@Rory She's a he in the future but in here she won't be here; he will
19:20
:-)
crawls beneath a Roc to hide from @Tilda's wrath
@RoryAlsop here here just because my sombrero is red that doesn't make me Boy George :P
Right. I'm off to bed - 22 hours already ... ugh
Somebody please try to remember my question for me
@TildalWave Ahhh - I actually thought it was a red tilde over your tilde
@Everyone Which? Or who? Or what?
that's three questions
too broad
19:22
@Rory make that 'red one over your's', and it'll be eminently star-able
takes @Everyone's question, whacks him over the head with it to make him go to sleep, and posts it myself
@Rory my awesome question, the one that I though could make the collider )+:
@Undo TY (+: Can always count on you tokeep the convo on track
'nini
@Everyone I'll need to go find it. Was a bit out today - had some minor surgery, so haven't been up to par
19:47
@Undo I've added you a cute XKCD to that answer of mine for why it's difficult to know if Voyager left the Solar system :)
Mental note to self: Always Google for XKCD + [question_title] images before answering any questions!
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@Tildal Haplogroup?
In molecular evolution, a haplogroup (from the , haploƻs, "onefold, single, simple") is a group of similar haplotypes that share a common ancestor having the same single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) mutation in all haplotypes. Because a haplogroup consists of similar haplotypes, it is possible to predict a haplogroup from haplotypes. An SNP test confirms a haplogroup. Haplogroups are assigned letters of the alphabet, and refinements consist of additional number and letter combinations, for example R1b1. Y-chromosome and mitochondrial DNA haplogroups have different haplogroup designatio...
I'd like to see someone rewrite that article for simple.wikipedia.org
hehehe
didn't even know it existed
@Tildal I didn't either, until this:
Lol, so funny watching 10kers and mods pouring into a room in response to a flag.
21:46
@Undo hasn't been fun in the DMZ when it happens :-(
22:02
that's because nobody gets what the hell we're talking about there, not even those that participate in conversation :)
we're too obfuscated
and our shared secret is too long :D
I think The DMZ is singlehandedly responsible for the entropy inflation of the Universe
22:20
@TildalWave I just realized that the answer to the speed question isn't complete
...and the real answer is surprising
well I did try to tell you, didn't I?
@TildalWave Spoiler alert: We are the fastest moving things
switches on red light
@TildalWave arrests for speeding
No no no you don't I did switch the red light on first, how would you know how fast I was going?
22:28
cosmic radar gun
23:05
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A: What's the fastest moving object in the universe?

ManishearthThe answer to this is surprising: We are. And many (if not all) other galaxies. And they move faster than light. See, the universe is expanding, at an accelerating rate. The fabric of spacetime itself stretches out, so that galaxies seem to move away from each other. The interesting thing is ...

Happy?
@ManishEarth Well yes, now I am :) Next time, just assume my comments are awesome tho :P
what no mention of Hawking radiation? :(
meh, that's pretty slow, right?
for that matter virtual/off mass shell particles go faster than $c$. But that becomes more cheating
it's actually completely static ;)
23:36
Q: Nonetheless, would be nice to hear something new on the matter: about, preferably macroscopic, objects, which move at relativistic proper velocities with respect to other, preferably macroscopic, nearby objects.
A: Piiiigs...iiiiin...spaaaace? :>
(See here)

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